Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning, The
Newest Press (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Three years into the second millennium, Majestic, Alberta is a farm town dealing with depressed crop prices, international borders closing to Canad...
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Eavesdroppers, The
Newest Press (CA)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for listeners to work on an unconventional project, he anti...
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Gerbil Mother
NeWest Press (CA)£15.99| /Gerbil, age zero, has a question: where do parents come from? Specifically, she wants to know about her mother. Who is this vessel in which she res...
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Getting Your Man
Spinifex PressOriginal price £12.95Current price £11.95| /Getting your man, the right man, is not always easy. But women, whether they are piece workers, housewives, artists, business women or farmers, kno...
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Ghost Detective
Eschia Books Inc (CA)Original price £14.99Current price £12.99| /The Compliance Officer for a First Nations Band has been shot in the head and left for dead. Unable to cross over to the great huntings grounds Bil...
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Ghostly Demarcations
Sagging Meniscus PressOriginal price £18.99Current price £14.24| /Everyone is constantly admonishing our narrator to keep quiet: "You're full of bull hockey, college boy... Shut up and drink your beer." Or, 'Shut ...
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God Is My Witness
Aiora PressOriginal price £12.99Current price £11.99| /It is the eve of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and Chrysovalantis -- a chronically unsuccessful but enthusiastic employee of the publishing indust...
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Godless but Loyal to Heaven
Great Plains Publications£9.99| /In Richard Van Camp's fictionalized north anything can happen and yet each story is rooted in a vivid contemporary reality. The stories offer a pot...
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Going Fast
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £17.99Current price £13.49| /In this punchy, uproarious romp of a novel, the Halifax boxing world -- peopled with has-beens, wannabes, and posers dressed in spandex, leopard pr...
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Grace River
Brindle & Glass (CA)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /Grace River is a smelter town in the interior of B.C. where most people who live there are born and bred, and everyone is either employed by AXIS o...
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Graceland Express
Dementi Milestone Publishing (US)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /"Climb aboard the graceland express for the ride of your life"! Vangie O Toole, is a devoted Elvis fan, but her dream of going to Graceland for the...
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Gracelessland
Great Plains Publications£6.99| /Its 1978, the year after Elvis Presley died, and Kepler Pressler is a sixteen-year-old Toronto kid with an obsessive attachment to his sock monkey,...
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Grandpère
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Anzel, a widow in her sixties, lives quietly on her small farm with her grandfather, a Carrier elder from Northern BC. Grandpère and Anzel pass the...
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Great Canadian Fishing Stories
Lone Pine Publishing£9.99| /This fun anthology reels in more than 30 Canadian sportfishing stories, from side splitters to heartbreakers. First fish, big fish, small fish, los...
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Greetings from the Vodka Sea
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Greetings from the off-kilter world of Chris Gudgeon. In his first-ever book of fiction, the bestselling author of The Naked Truth: The Untold Hist...
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Grief Songs
Sagging Meniscus PressOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /On June 4th, 2016, poet Jack Foleys wife, Adelle Foley, who was (as she told her doctor) never sick, was diagnosed with stomach cancer; she died o...
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Grow Wars
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /While crime boss Harry Jarvis has been languishing in jail, the Collins brothers have been steadily taking over his crime operation. Life has certa...
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Guests of Chance
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £23.99Current price £17.99| /Colleen Curran returns with her latest novel, Guests of Chance, completing the hilarious trilogy that has taken readers through break-ups, make-ups...
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Gumption & Grit
Caitlin Press (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /In 2002 the Williams Lake Women's Contact Society posted a request for pioneer stories of the women of the Cariboo Chilcotin. What they received wa...
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Guy Who Pumps Your Gas Hates You, The
Newest Press (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /"No one should ever work at a gas station long enough to get good at it," observes Brendan, the narrator of the debut novel from Sean Trinder. Bren...
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Gynomite
Garrett County Press (US)£15.99| /From lesbians writing gay male sex to straight chicks writing as horny men, this collection turns stereotypes on their heads. From the most subtle ...
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Hannah and the Magic Eye
Great Plains Publications£7.99| /Thisis the story of Hannah and Samir, two unlikely friends who embark on a fast-paced treasure hunt though modern-day Jerusalem to find the famed t...
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Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun
Sagging Meniscus PressOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Four days before the 2016 Presidential Election, disgraced teacher Scott Bonneville foils a mass shooting at the Pizza Galley Family Fun Center by ...
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Heap
Peredur Publishing (US)£6.99| /This is a mesmerising novel that opens with a priest fleeing shadowy pursuers. In his flight, he leaves behind a journal in a London flat. The jour...
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Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /This is a delightful collection of tales by authors from British Columbia's rugged Cariboo-Chilcotin region, and a few "outsiders." Joining well-kn...
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High Wire
Massey University PressOriginal price £34.99Current price £22.74| /High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made...
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History of Wolves
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£10.99| /Text in Arabic. Teenage Linda lives with her parents in the austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a l...
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Homer in Flight
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £14.99Current price £12.99| /Hilarious and poignant, Homer in Flight draws a brilliant picture of a chronic malcontent roving from high-rise to housing development along the 40...
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Hooker & Brown
Brindle & Glass (CA)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /Set in the Canadian Rockies, Hooker & Brown is an evocative adventure story about one man's quest to put to rest a historical mystery. While re...
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Hoptime
Sagging Meniscus Press£11.99| /Plotless, absurd, nonsensical, arbitrary, silly, mad, ribald, noisy, violent, despairing, obscene, drugaddled, revolting, and hilarious, J F Mamjj...
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Horse Laughs and Hard Knocks
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Just about any time somebody catches up a horse, there is a story in the works. Thoroughbred or bronc, work horse or saddle horse, they all seem to...
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Horse Stories
Lone Pine PublishingOriginal price £12.99Current price £11.99| /Riding with the Wind presents soul-touching stories of birth, death, hard work, speed and thundering hooves that tell of a lifelong love of horses ...
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Horsebuggy
Sagging Meniscus PressOriginal price £18.99Current price £14.24| /After a nefarious yet revered mayor bans horse-drawn carriages in his city, a reclusive horse-and-buggy driver loses his job, his lover, and his un...
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Hour of the Crab
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £17.99Current price £13.49| /Patricia Robertson's new collection of short fiction, Hour of the Crab, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original visi...
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House of Spells
NeWest Press (CA)£11.99| /Robert Pepper-Smith's graceful follow-up to "The Wheel Keeper" follows the friendship between teenagers Rose and Lacey and their search for self-co...
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Hurricane
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /In The Great Escape and Papillon, Steve McQueen embodied the tough guy on the run from captivity and injustice. But when it comes to toughness, McQ...
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